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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1 9 10 



Fig. 1 — A house with a lean-to roof 



Some Houses at Meadowdale, Bronxville, New York 



By Paul Thurston 



[HE many faults of the average American 

 suburban house in the past can be easily 

 traced in part to the inexperienced archi- 

 tect anti in part to the persistent ideas 

 which the home builder wishes to have 

 expressed in his home, irrespective of 

 the best advice he may have received on 



the subject. This is not so, now, for the reason that the 



average business man, when he contemplates the building 



of a house, 



consults and 



studies thor- 

 oughly a 1 1 



the maga- 

 zines devot- 

 ed to such a 



subject and 



when he 



gives his or- 

 der to the 



a r c h i t ect, 



whom he 



has selected 



to do his 



work, he has 



a com pre- 



hensive idea 



as to the 



kind of a 



house he 



wants to 



build, the 



style of 



architecture 



in which it 



is to be built Fie. 2 — First floor plan 



and the sort of material of which it is to be constructed. 

 With this assistance on the part of the owner the archi- 

 tect Is able to work along a similar line of thought and the 

 result is that the architect has produced something better 

 than he would have accomplished if left to his own in- 

 clination. 



The houses presented in the engravings, herewith, have 

 been erected at Meadowdale, Bronxville, New York, and 



while they 

 were built by 

 several dif- 

 ferent own- 

 ers and were 

 designed by 

 two differ- 

 ent a r c h i - 

 tects, they 

 are so con- 

 structed in 

 material and 

 in design 

 that each 

 one forms a 

 perfect har- 

 mony with 

 the other 

 and the re- 

 sult Is that 

 the e n t i re 

 property has 

 the a s p e ct 

 o f having 

 been de- 

 signed by 

 one archl- 

 Fig. 3 — Second floor plan tect. 



